Be Such A Man, And Live Such

The Best Advisers, Helpers And Friends, Always Are Not Those Who Tell Us How To Act In Special Cases, But Who Give Us, Out Of Themselves, The Ardent Spirit And Desire To Act Right, And Leave Us Then, Even Through Many Blunders, To Find Out What Our Own Form Of Right Action Is.

Wherever Souls Are Being Tried And Ripened, In Whatever Commonplace And Homely Way, There God Is Hewing Out The Pillars For His Temple.

There Are Two Ways Of Defending A Castle; One By Shutting Yourself Up In It, And Guarding Every Loop-hole; The Other By Making It An Open Centre Of Operations From Which All The Surrounding Country May Be Subdued. Is Not The Last The Truest Safety?

Everything Keeps Its Best Nature Only By Being Put To Its Best Use.

Every Sermon Must Have A Solid Rest In Scripture, And The Pointedness Which Comes Of A Clear Subject, And The Conviction Which Belongs To Well-thought Argument, And The Warmth That Proceeds From Earnest Appeal.